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Hartford / Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building

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Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company building of 1920, designed by NY architect Benjamin Morris. Now used by Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP). (Not to be confused with Phoenix Mutual’s modern headquarters, known as the “Boat Building” for its unusual shape.) Name: Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Department of Energy and Environmental […]

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Hartford / Linden Building

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Linden Building, built in 1891, is a Main Street landmark with its copper-topped cupola. Now condominiums. Name:  Linden Building Location: 1 Linden Place, 427 Main Street  Year Completed: 1891  Architect: Frederick Savage Newman  Style: Richardsonian Romanesque  National Register of Historic Places: Buckingham Square District (pdf)  Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos

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Hartford / State Armory

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Hartford State Armory, aka Connecticut State Armory, aka Governor William A. O’Neill State Armory, is headquarters of the state militia. It was built with a great deal of cast concrete which deteriorated and was replaced with carved limestone in the 1990s. (See National Register of Historic Places registration form for more detail). Name:  Connecticut State

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Hartford / Municipal Building

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The Hartford Municipal Building is the city’s third City Hall, after outgrowing two previous homes. The land was donated by financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Name:  Hartford Municipal Building, City Hall Location:  550 Main Street Year Completed: 1915  Architect: Davis & Brooks, Palmer & Hornbostel  Style: Beaux Arts  Wikipedia: Municipal Building  Google Map All images copyright

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Hartford / Goodwin Hotel

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Goodwin Hotel, originally Goodwin Apartments, was built at the corner of Asylum and Haynes Streets in 1881. It was expanded in 1891 and again in 1900; the Goodwin Square Tower was added in 1989, as the apartments were converted to a hotel. Name: Goodwin Apartments, Goodwin Hotel, Goodwin Square Tower  Location:  1 Haynes Street Year

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Hartford / Gold Building

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Gold Building, Hartford CT; aka 755 Main Street, One Financial Plaza, converted to residential use in 2014. Building has a microgrid – 336 solar panels on roof, plus a 400 kilowatt fuel cell. Name: Gold Building, One Financial Plaza  Location:   755 Main Street Year Completed: 1967  Architect: Welton Becket  Style:  Postmodern Wikipedia: 777 Main Street

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Hartford / First Presbyterian Church

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One of the architects – James Renwick, Jr. – also designed New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian Institution Building. Name: First Presbyterian Church  Location: 136 Capitol Avenue  Year Completed: 1870  Architect:  Renwick & Sands Style:  High Victorian Romanesque Historic Buildings of Connecticut: First Presbyterian Church, Hartford  Google Map All images copyright

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Hartford / Colt Armory

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Colt Firearms Factory, on Van Dyke Avenue, with its distinctive gold star-spangled blue onion dome. Name: Colt Armory, Colt Factory  Location: 60-78 Van Dyke Avenue  Year Completed: 1855  Architect: General William B. Franklin  Wikipedia: Colt Armory  Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2020 with Canon 5D Mark iv

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